Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-07-31


Is hut one man in Norway who could do it
Professor l., in Christiana."
But how eau We get him here
Money will bring him here. Ii you
wish, | will write him about the case
Money? How much?'
Perhaps u hundred dollars
"A hundred dollars
Crooked John dropped down upoua stone
and gazrd hopeleSSly out over the river.
4 hundred dollars. How could a poor
sick weakliug ever hope 10 earn q hundred
dollars tie got live cents u sheet from
the nudge tor his copying. How long
would 1t take him AT that rate To make 4
hundred dollars, lie cut 4 piece OF birch
bark from i tree aud hegau 10 reckon. lie
covered il all over with figures, and quite
forgot about the doctors presence.
Two years, ~ he murmured sadly, rus-
my his eyes from the BIRCH bark; two
years.
For two years people scarcely saw
Crooked John. lie called upon Helen yet,
bat not a. aitrn a. before. Some said hr
wl~ IN: Others that he had gone mad. Yet
lite 40 night Crooked John tuight have
been seen hurryiug ~brrtthlrSsly along the
highway with large rolls OF paper under
his arms. lie wrote late and early, night
aud dly. Not only tIom the Judge did he
procure copying. bat from the new colonel
and sheriff. lie looked giuut and haggIrd
his cheeks were yrIluwtsh pale aud Sunkeu.
The writer's crlmp tortured him until hls
right arm was almost paralylcd Then he
.- Fr.. 1.Y.r ,.lIl. and l.4AVrrtN In
write with his LETT hand. lie lived much
of the time in a halt daIrd condition,
working ON iudrrltiyuhly, only conscious
of one puTpusr tu have hclrus sight re-
stored. to save her from the poor house.
Every penny lac raruedhe boarded up with
"A misrr's glrr. aud pulled out the bag
every might from his mattress, sewing II
up carefully again after having counted his
Gains. II. hrgrudgrd himself the little
that he needed 70 keep body and soul 10.
gruh,r, aud WIS content ~ tong ~ hunger
did not disable him before he had finished
his work.
one night it was about two years after
his last meeting with Crooked Johu-thr
| doctor WIS sitting in his study. There
WAS a .uuui OF footsteps in the hail shut
lAh-f bN''''''H '''''' - ','' ''
seemed tu he GroptuH i"r the door Nn"h.
The doctor arose AMI opened the door.
"Ah, tro"kcd John, 7a'd hr, IA anna,
nrui. 10" OUT s." '"''" ~ "'N"'' N''""'"
john
Crooked John stood painting at the door.
il WAS some Time hri"le ne was An'' t.,
speak. he held his hands tightly claspcd
under his chest, as il they were guarding
something precious that Was hidden there.
sit down, ' said the doctor, pushing INN
gently into % char, you are al, see yon
wish tu consult me.
NO no, answered Crooked Jouh,
with q bcwIidrr,d look. ~ am not H.
what, then, can | do iou yuut aSked
the doctor.
The cripple, casting ANXIOUS ElAhyrN
about th" room, began 10 ~Uh""'Io" "I,
coat ana WdINt'o|'. ne LOON 'W'" |'N
bag, ana puJ IL OH 'He |'''' "''''' '"N
doctor.
Count that, ne 'A'"' ouu"l"E '"'
StIuE ami taxing up n'hutuI o' ''PI''
AMI silver money. IL is 9I"".
But what am 10 do WITH !" '""
dou owe me "hN'ulhE.
y on Md ~ M""," ,"7i s'''.
u'l ".I'u 'C'i wv.
-" give i''''" ",' s'H"' ,h,u Ia
Inc doctor ''""" SP''' -,
ET'~ptu TIC '''PP'' "'"" '''
warmly. .r l,
MI Won NI"'T", "' I,,"' Wv
m5''" J." '"' "'>'
/" about a week the famous P'"l
ctH'v. 't"""r" JONI. ''" P"'"''" 81" NS""'
outside ana peep Ll ,"'U"S" '"' "I|'"'
so H~ l' S'' '"G "''I I""P9' ="
Race "h,h she 7I""r" IPy" "I' - "F,
i'' dty ny" ne u'' '""lU "
lace the Thought '"'' rs mus ''"I,' "
her NE h"i one parting G'''.tN, Nv ''
have OF her sweet lace I'u''nI WIN "'P.
piue~~, ~ she vUiv'E'u 'H'" Tue '"I'''
from urI long hlSuI, I",N mus ~
wand "l nus l'noI' ne u'r Sg'" ~, p.o.;
IN the Ola L'u'S n''IG VI C"'' ~
the sight oil the nIInd, ana hr lGl"-'n'''
the professor ana IL III very h''u the 7'I''
way. As II h'PPoh'"' n"Ne'o, va -
day When the operation WIS 10 '"Ne P."'''
he was TOO IL! 10 I'"'t us ~ ~
was raging III ms VEINS, Ill" S'i'"S'u
seemed utterly exhausted lheo'u pT'N""'
woman in whose house ne ilNtd mdut lea
out oil medicinal herbs II gave IL 10 hlul'
, But she could not sui the raging 'htTh'I'l
Of thought that like Il maeINirom "hiFieo
within his brain. The magnitude OF III
sacrifice began to sho" upon MN; IN re-
, storing the light to Helen, he Gad 4neh'n,
, ed the light Of hGS own NE. hai "Ou'"
existence be 10 him without her. a ionl
, cropping through dusky sohtudcS Win 'h'
cold breath Of Death IN hiS lace. The taT''
. OF him which she loved low could n'
\ have tine heart To destroy IL. no" '""l'
he ever walk up to her ugly ana in5NNn"P
# pen - he wapS, and say am the one
r whom You love! am iia'oiI o I'IH,'n.
Woui" she believe nun Won" rsa,him,,
4 rather turn away from hIln VIII" '"''"'"S
And could he survive her disgust ""u',
he not sink into tho elrih before "'' '"|'
: OF svOrn' from ihr HrPih "' MS VIC ~
Il cried out 10 God, PRAYING Tor death. 81"
= the ]torturing thoughts returned III" ''
e turned, and neither threat nor P''ST
y would keep them away. tie %I" hllnsri